Christian, n. One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, or any training, can do a fine job of programming. Programmers know this, but then why is it that they think that anyone picked off the street can do documentation? One has only to spend an hour looking at papers written by graduate students to realize the extent to which the ability to communicate is not universally held. And so, when we speak about computer program documentation, we are not speaking about the psychology of computer programming at all - except insofar as programmers have the illusion that anyone can do a good job of documentation, provided he is not smart enough to be a programmer.
I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.